Gosh what a horrible day. Is it torrential storms and THUNDER AND LIGHTNING IN CAPITAL LETTERS near you too? Unless you’re planning on braving the outside world to attend the RPS social club tonight, I strongly recommend spending your entire weekend indoors playing some new PC games. Here’s some fun games that you could buy, all of them cheaper than they usually cost. For more gaming deals, check out SavyGamer.co.uk.

I absolutely adore this game, at the same time as so frequently screaming at it how bloody stupid it is. Even if you ignore its obsession with underpants (which is reason alone to buy it), and the absolutely wonderful art style, and the collection of obscure and interesting music found throughout, and even the way Batman-esque onomatopoeic cartoon words so perfectly spring up for all actions, just the game’s three core ideas make this something splendid.

Offspring Fling! – £1.70/€2.04/$2.72
This is a sidescrolling puzzler about collecting lost chicks, then throwing them at walls and buttons. Here’s wot Alec though.

It’s not a gimmicky concept stretched until breaking point over a handful of levels, but a fully fleshed-out offering that milks admirable variety from the core idea of throwing chicks around a room. Perhaps it could be argued to be a little too retro, but what really makes Offspring Fling sing to me is that it’s genuinely evoking and then slightly building on that era of puzzle-platforming, rather than being an arch reimaginging or a shameless nostalgia trip.

I stopped adding substantially to my memory palace maybe ten years ago. It’s not that there’s not lots of room to expand; Underworld II was subtitled “Labyrinth of Worlds” and featured eight other heart-breakingly strange and well-designed worlds that you had to visit, where I could have crammed in memories; no, it was just that I didn’t find myself with the time to retreat there for several years, ironically generating memories that I didn’t store and now have mostly lost.

Dino Run SE, Guerrilla Bob, Gunman Clive, Ichi, Muffin Knight, Paper Monsters, Samurai II: Vengeance & Syder Arcade – £3.17/€4/$5
Or pay any price and just get Dino Run SE, Ichi, Muffin Knight & Syder Arcade.
A nice selection of games from developers that are looking to raise their profiles in preparation for submitting to Steam’s Greelight service. Dino Run SE is a blast, you’re a dinosaur and you have to run from left to right in a prehistoric race against EXTINCTION. I’ve not played the others, but Syder Arcade looks like a pretty rad shmup and Gunman Clive looks like Megaman but with a cowboy.

Deal of the weekCivilization V – £4.74/€5.99/$7.49Civilization V [Goatee Edition] – £7.90/€9.98/$12.49
Registers on Steam, and since this is from Amazon US, you’ll need to enter a US billing address.
The Civ games are great, and Civ 5 is a great Civ. It’s maybe not the best one, but it’s without a doubt the most pleasing to look at. Alec said:

That’s Civ V’s thing- lavishness. It’s dangerous to kick off any game write-up harking on about how pretty the graphics are, but in Civ V’s case it’s genuinely integral to the game’s appeal. It’s not that it’s hyper-graphics. It’s that it’s meticulously detailed, a crafted world rather than merely a glossy one. The units are on the fuzzy side, for instance, but as a whole it’s this wide world of tiny, moving parts. Boardgame roots it might have, but this is Civ moving into being a living thing.

The paranoid part of me says:
Because they’ve read all the comments that said “I’m gonna wait for the GOTY Edition”. Now those comments meant “All Inclusive Edition” but the company would rather have an edition where you still keep on buying. And who knows, maybe someone goes in, not knowing they left out some of the DLC and the Expansion.

He said Gravatar, though. As long as the e-mail address matches, it should pull it in. See mine, for example.

Also, the parachute thruster DLC for Just Cause 2 (and the whole lot is about half the price of lunch in this sale) is amusingly overpowered. If grapple-paragliding just wasn’t a great enough way to get around for you any more, it basically turns Rico into a small jetplane on demand. (If you want to get the parachuting achievements, I suggest getting them the old fashioned way first for some challenge, because the thrusters are IDKFA kinds of silly fun. [Although I guess you could just not fire them up.])

DLC weapons thus far don’t seem much cop, mind, save the airblast cannon, which is amusing for pushing military jeeps off of bridges.

That Greenlight Bundle actually has some pretty cool, maybe even if little known, games… totally worth it even for Syder Arcade alone, I’m a sucker for pretty looking shumps.

Oh also I forgot to say that’s not a “normal” horizontal scroller shumps, you can actually reverse your ship direction, it plays a bit like Defender or Attack of the Mutant Camels, it’s quite awesome and brutally difficult so far

It’s just my personal optinion, of course, but I recommend everyone to stay as far away from Two Worlds 2 Furious as possible.
It really is the worst game in my entire Steam library, containing 304 games.

It plays like an MMO, it is more grindy than one, there is no AI, and the key for running is the same as the one for locking onto an enemy and blocking.
But those are flaws that could’ve been overlooked if the game had something else going for it, and/or didn’t feel tedious and awful to play in general.

It is indeed THUNDER AND LIGHTNING here. This is very scary when you are in a small tin box in the middle of a big wet thing (a narrowboat in a river) and the lightning hits less than fifty metres away.

Probably because it’s not really a PC gaming story. SCE Liverpool haven’t been a PC gaming studio for at least a decade, and not really much of one for some time before that, the odd Wipeout port notwithstanding.

Din’s Curse is absolutely brilliant Diablo-“clone”, can’t recommend it high enough. It is very solid and offers so many ways to play itself it’s ridiculous. And for that price it’s pretty much a must buy. And if you’re not convinced Soldak’s site has a demo available.

If anyone doesn’t own S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat and you are even mildly interested in open world shooters, you need to own it. In my opinion it is the best STALKER by a landslide and dare I say, probably one of my favorite games of all time.

Is there a good place to see reviews or advice for mods for STALKER? ModDB has plenty of mods, but it can be hard to judge what is worth installing. Some, like weapon mods, are pretty obvious. But the others, like Complete and AtmosFear aren’t so obvious.

I’m currently playing SoC with Complete, but I’ve heard people have had more issues with CoP Complete. I like the graphical improvements of SoC Complete, but AI is certainly still flawed (for example, I just experienced a two force shoot-out in a multi-floor building, where I saw several of the normal NPCs firing at the ceiling. I can only guess that they were trying to shoot enemy NPCs that were on the second or third floor or something.)

AtmosFear sounds interesting, but I’m not sure how I feel about the acid storms, psi storms, and the like.

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